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I think if you had said this at the outset, most folks would have understood where you were coming from, and how that sentiment framed your arguments.

I am going to go out on the limb and speak...

Man, we need to develop an "Amen!" emoticon.

It also may work some way towards restoring the credibility lost by the UNSC in the wake of the previous decision by the Bush Administration to sidestep it in September 2002..

Are you referring to the Iranians?

Ghadaffi is certainly getting a powerful IO message out there that throws this action right back in everyone's face. I think it is fairly effective.

From the Yahoo News article:
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You tell them as you are putting it in the ground,

I need a rolling on the floor emoticon, as if I could show you video of how fast the Afghans are able to put them in, you'd be a little shocked.

And as for expertise, a pressure plate is...

These guys aren't driving across the open expanses of desert. They could, but they don't, and won't. It would only work with the first few dozen or so strikes astride the main roads they are...

I am honestly surprised we haven't seen the employment of several well-placed, simple IEDs, to give the tankers reason for pause.

yup, he just pushed his pawn into check...and...mate.

If we fall in with a plan to deliver airstrikes against anything on the ground, we've just granted Ghadaffi martyrdom, no matter how it ends. He will have fought the bullying great powers that...

To be more precise, we don't have a need to be involved, militarily, in the affairs of Libya.

The neocons are going wild with bloodlust over the simple dynamics of the classic Catch-22 situation that the US is in.

It should give everyone reason for pause, and to literally stop, drop, and...

For no other reason than the fact that the US has IMO recently tread very heavily in the path of world affairs (and typically to our detriment) and is experiencing larger issues as a result, it would...